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Lily Isobel

Breathwork Facilitator, Embodied Nutritional Therapist, Eating Psychology and Mind-Body Coach

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health." Hippocrates (460 – 377 BC)

ABOUT NUTRITION

Naturopathic Nutrition focuses on the whole person, and not their symptoms. In acknowledging that everyone is unique and, therefore, has unique needs, the use of naturopathic principles alongsi

de the correct nutrition can promote physical, emotional, mental healing and wellbeing. As a Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, Lily recognise’s that everybody is different and there is no “one size fits all” way of eating, or road to healing and feeling 'well'. In her consultations, Lily ensures there is a thorough understanding of the clients personal history, goals, needs and lifestyle in order to create a program that is tailored to their individual requirements. ABOUT LILY

Lily’s passion for nutrition began with my own health journey, having suffered from depression, anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder. Unsatisfied with the treatment options and ‘nutritional advice’ recommended to her, she decided to research and discover how to heal myself through diet and lifestyle changes. Lily is passionate about helping others reclaim their health and reclaim their relationship with food and their body through dietary and lifestyle tools. If you would like to learn more information about Lily or the services offerred, or you would like to book an appointment, please visit her website.

25/06/2026

The breath has taken me to places that no other medicine or altered state practice has.

Not to the altered states that certain breath practises can take you to. But the journey of working with the breath and being able to access the body, the soma.

So many practices take us out of the body. Breath takes us in. We get to stay and feel what’s actually there. We get to explore it in ways that other practices often override or bypass. Especially when you’ve been spending years trying to escape the body.

Sensation becomes this epic download and witnessing the breath move in the body is like a cosmic vision.

I’ve accessed grief on different levels, consciously touched tension and met parts of myself that after all this other work, still hadn’t been fully met.

There is no right, or wrong, for some there is space for different practices. And each provides something unique. But after years traversing the world of the body, and the world of altered states, more and more, this is what I have been finding through the consistent practice and presence of the breath.

If you’re interested in exploring that too, sign up to my online monthly Breathwork integration group. Link in bio 🌀🌬️🧡

📸 Bart Mazurczak 𖤓 Photographer from Kamala

22/06/2026

Guess how long this one’s been sitting in my notes section.

Oh, and I started a Substack!

Link in bo 🔗

12/06/2026

When we sit inside the process of peeling away what binds us, we often find that it’s not so much about unhooking what has a hold on us, but more about what is there that we are gripping back to in return?

We’ve all been in something that we have outgrown but find it difficult to fully detach ourselves from. Where the illusion has already dissolved, we see plainly through it, but it still seems to have us bound. Pulling us back. Going round in circles. I often feel it as being caught in tentacles that seem to have a hold but looking closer, you realise that you’re gripping back just as hard.

That white-knuckled grip is not just to the thing. To the outcome. To the person. To the place. It’s not just to the pattern. It’s much deeper than all of it. It’s a gripping to the identity that we built inside of the thing. It’s narrative searching for meaning and safety within a version that our systems constructed. Versions where the safety was never even real, or true.

This is often where we get stuck. By remaining loyal to identity and loyal to what we gave meaning.

Even if we let one expression of it go, we stay subconsciously committed to it in another form. One hand let’s go, and the other is gripping tightly to the next thing. One part of us says enough, and the other part is saying, I still need this.

We can’t fully release until we get radically honest and ask: what am I still gripping to inside of this? Not how do I release myself from it. But what is this still feeding? What story, what belief, what version of self, what meaning?

And If i really let go, what is left? Who am I outside of this? Who am I if I let go? Is there anything left?

Can I surrender to that unknown? Can that unknown be trusted? Can it be enough?

Can I still be enough?
Can I still belong?

05/06/2026

We are somatically shaped by relationship.

This is where the wound occurs AND where repair also happens. Insight alone is not enough ~ we need the felt experience of actually being met.

The return to self has always moved through the space between ~ always unfolding in relationship.

01/06/2026

Most of you won’t know this…

I started my “working life” as a surveyor working in commercial asset recovery and debt restructuring 👀.

But whilst working on recovering commercial assets, I was actually losing access to myself and body through anorexia, addiction and depression.

And that became my journey and the work I’m doing in the world now, just now the asset is the body.

Meeting the breath and somatics was a Aha moment where everything landed into place, giving me the greatest gift in my own homecoming… Not just “recovery” but in some way, also living out my design, and seeing the mirror come full circle.

If your wondering how I got from surveying to somatics and what the design is…

For the Astro lovers:
my Sun plus 5 other planets in Capricorn means systems, structure and building things are my foundations. Cancer rising is where the world of felt sense lives through me. Chiron in Cancer points to body trust and self-belonging being my deepest wound and the work. And my Moon in Sag which is body and emotions, is all about finding freedom and meaning within a structure.

It feels like the journey was already written…

So this is how structure and sensation know moves through me and my work:

Reclaiming a body that’s been dissociated from is asset recovery.

A NS carrying survival patterns and protection responses is a weight/debt that the system learns to hold.

Reorganising what the NS believes it needs to do is how we restructure the weight of what’s carried. And through the architecture of breath and somatics is how we find the access points and come back into the felt sense and return.

And from here, there is the dissolution. The dissolving - liquidation - of the story, the contract, the agreements. All of which are illusions that something was wrong or broken with us in the first place.

And underneath all of that, is this returning to awareness itself :: presence :: the capacity to feel :: to sense :: allowing energy to move through you :: and reconnecting to the sensory aliveness or being home in the body :: and returning to the truth the lives at the centre.

And that’s the journey. Coming back again & again. Always returning.

31/05/2026

Most of you won’t know this…

but I started my working life as a surveyor working in commercial asset recovery and debt restructuring 👀. 
But whilst working on recovering commercial assets, I was actually losing access to my self and body through anorexia, addiction and depression.

And that became my journey and the work I’m doing in the world now, but now the asset is the body.

Coming to breath and somatics was a Aha moment where everything landed into place through my own recovery… Not just healing myself but also living out a design, letting the mirror come full circle.  
if it makes zero sense how I got from surveying to somatics…my Sun plus 5 other planets in Capricorn means systems, structure and building things are how I’m wired. Cancer rising ~ the world of felt sense lives through me. Chiron in Cancer ~ body trust and self-belonging is my deepest wound and the work. Moon in Sag ~ finding freedom and meaning within structure.

The journey was already written.

~ Reclaiming a body you’ve dissociated from is asset recovery.

~ A NS carrying survival patterns and protection responses is a weight, debt, that the system learns to hold.

~ Renegotiating what the NS believes it needs to do is how we reorganise the weight of what’s carried.

~ Through the architecture of breath - the intelligence of both body and the breath is how we access and come into the felt sense of return.

~ And from here, there is the dissolution. The dissolving - liquidation - of the story, the contract, the agreements. All illusions that something was wrong or broken in the first place.

And underneath all of that, is retuning to awareness itself :: presence :: the capacity to feel :: to sense :: allowing energy to move through you :: and reconnecting to the sensory aliveness or being home :: and returning to truth.

Coming back. That’s the work. Again and again. Always returning.

28/05/2026

The nervous system is a network, and sometimes it gets stuck.

It uses unreliable and old data that sends outputs and makes predictions.

Signals glitch and get stuck in loops.
Automated responses get turned on.
Data gets encrypted (and becomes inaccessible).

All because we never received the update that the original threat has passed.

And now what? The body is transmitting on a frequency that’s difficult to read. What shows up as anxiety, tension, shutdown, disconnection is stuck signals trying to get your attention.

We live inside systems that track us and control us and predict what we want, tell us what to think. We’ve learned to rely on them instead of ourselves (hi AI). We have outsourced our own sensing to the very systems designed to control us.

But the nervous system holds all the information you need, and only you can read it.

That’s where breath comes in. A literal technology. A conscious interface you have with a system that operates entirely without your input.

Change the breath ➡️ change the input ➡️ experience the output shift. 
The breath allows you to change what your network is receiving and with enough safety and new data the system will eventually begin to update.

Can we learn to decipher our own system instead of handing that intelligence to something else?  There is no inherent flaw within our programming system. It’s simply a glitch where all the old coding is still being read. The nervous system is doing exactly what it learned to do :: but in a body that has since outgrown the threat.

Breath + Soma is how we come home. Back to the body. Back to what you already know.

26/05/2026

Most of you won’t know this, but I have started my working life in the property industry.

At Uni my dissertation was on how the ‘08 banking crisis impacted the commercial property sector, which subsequently gave rise to a peak in debt restructuring and recovery of commercial property assets. lol.

I loved working in asset recovery and debt restructuring. And in a way, this is still what I am doing, it’s been both my journey and now is my work.

Whilst working on recovering commercial assets, i was losing access to my own through annorexia, addiction and depression.

And if it makes zero sense how I got from that world to here…if you understand Astrology, my sun plus 5 other planets are in Capricorn. Systems and structure are my literal building blocks. My Cancer rising means that the world of felt sense also lives through me. Chiron in Cancer is the threshold of body trust and self-belonging as both the wound and the work. Moon in Sag - finding freedom, exploration and meaning within the structure. So I hold this paradox of structure and sensation.

So as I talk about the body as ‘the built environment’, I’m speaking a language that I know, I just didn’t always understand it that way. 
Because the body is an asset.
Reclaiming the body you’ve dissociated from is the asset recovery.
A nervous system that carries old survival patterns & protection responses from unprocessed experiences - literal debt.
Renegotiating terms and agreements with the NS is how we restructure the debt.

And you guessed it, the mechanism that brings you back...breath...the architect that rebuilds the nervous system.

We spend a lot of time treating the surface and underneath the surface - the facade - there are foundations that hold a story and walls that became boundaries. So the work is restorative - surveying the inner landscape and rebuilding from the foundations up.

21/05/2026

Sorry to break it to you, but life will never stop trying to pull us out of ourselves.

Regulation and groundedness are, of course, excellent resource points.

but….the more we hold that as the goal and this place we think we need get to, the more shame we end up carrying every time we do get pulled…

and we do
we will
….we’re human.

The body is always responding to life as life arrives. So this is where we want to focus: the return.

How quick can we notice when we’ve gone?
How long does it take us to come back?
Can we come back at all without fully losing ourselves?

When life throws something big, and it will, and it is currently for many of us…it’s throwing really big stuff… it’s ok that we won’t always have the capacity to meet it from steady ground.

Sometimes we’ll meet it from the four-year-old or from a place that learned to manage everything, learned to people please or from the old patterns that keeps telling us its safer than being in the present.

And that’s ok!
We want to focus on the return. The real flex is coming back.

Finding those micro-awareness moments of “I’ve gone” and then work on coming back and anchor in.

:: with breath
:: with a hand on the chest
:: with feet on the floor

We will still get pulled, we will still spiral, we will still lose it some days but the return will stop taking days > hours> minutes, and then when you arent even noticing it starts happening all on its own.

Life will continue to test us in ways unimaginable, and we are not failing if we get rocked by it, we are simply always returning and trusting that self that knows the way home.

That is where the truth of who we are waits and where the real change happens.

19/05/2026

Notes from a recovering intensity addict.

This topic gets me, because I have lived it deeply. My friends joke about it openly how I both love, and am always doing something really intense. And it’s true.

My nervous system has always sought it out because chaos and intensity have always felt normal for me. For a long time I was chasing to feel something ~ to feel alive ~ because I had mastered the art of dissociation.

It’s taken a long time to finally understand that what I was searching for in the next big experience was something the next big experience was never going to give me…

That aliveness already lived inside of me.

It was always there. I was just moving too fast and running too hard to feel it.

So this is what I build my work around now, and the spaces I create. Rather than pushing for release, it’s focussed on how to slow down and remember that there has never actually been anything missing.

The most profound healing and transformation I have witnessed both in myself and in others has come not from the biggest experience, but from coming back, again and again, to what already lives within us.

That is where the truth of who we are waits and where the real change happens.

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